Off-track Entertainment

The 2015 Formula 1® Rolex Australian Grand Prix will showcase a world of off-track entertainment with an array of activities to suit fans of all ages. Our entertainment schedule is now live and features some old favourites and some fabulous new off-track diversions.

Inside Formula 1®

Formula 1 ® entered uncharted territory this week when the Swisse F1 Two-Seater took to the Great Ocean Road and put on a spectacular display along the iconic stretch of Victorian coastline.

It marks the first time in history that a Formula 1 ® car has travelled along Victoria’s major tourist route, with the breathtaking drive commencing at the 12 Apostles and weaving its way towards Lorne.

Nitro Circus Live, one of the greatest live action sports show in the world, will take the stage at the 2013 Formula 1® Rolex Australian Grand Prix, free for all ticket holders.

The world’s best action sports athletes will push themselves to the limit, performing free, daily shows that will culminate in a one-hour post-race spectacular. The shows will feature Nitro’s famous 50-foot giganta ramp, extreme stunts in Freestlye Motocross, BMX, Skateboard, Scooters and more.

The sight of F1® superstar Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes AMG Petronas race suit was the most striking image of the German team’s 2013 launch on Monday. The 2008 drivers’ champion had become synonymous with McLaren, his home throughout his professional career to date, but times have changed and the Englishman now occupies the cockpit vacated by the retired Michael Schumacher.

V8 Supercars driver Mark Winterbottom has joined the 2013 Formula 1® Rolex Australian Grand Prix team as the event’s official V8 Ambassador.

Mark "Frosty" Winterbottom has climbed from the junior categories of motor racing to the very top echelon of the sport in Australia and has firmly established himself as one of V8 Supercars' brightest stars and future champions.

Chelsea Scanlan was unveiled this morning as the Ambassador of the 2013 Formula 1® Rolex Australian Grand Prix.

The stunning Melbourne-raised model burst onto the scene at the tender age of 17, quickly becoming one the nation’s top models – a position she has retained with ease thanks to her striking good looks, infallible work ethic and infectious personality.

The clock is ticking and with just under forty days until the spotlight is on Melbourne, the Australian Grand Prix Corporation has announced Rolex as the Title Sponsor for the 2013 Formula 1® Australian Grand Prix.

A high octane launch event featuring the F1®Two-Seater on ice heralded the new partnership and built excitement ahead of the event which will kick off the Formula 1® season next month.

Infiniti Red Bull Racing championed evolution over revolution at the launch of the team’s 2013 model, the RB9.

And who could blame them? With Red Bull boasting a hat-trick of Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships heading into the new season, the RB9 conforms to the old adage, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Names and nicknames are a lot of fun, so to start with here’s another question for you: what does a Pampas Bull have to do with the most successful marque in Formula 1 history?

Ferrari’s F138 was launched in Maranello at the end of last week. The Lotus E21 was the 21st car to come from that team’s Enstone stable, but where does the Italian constructor get its nomenclature from?

In some ways March 6, 1981 was a typical day at Silverstone: it rained. In other ways it was an historic occasion.

On that date the McLaren MP4-1 was unveiled at the famous British track. The designation was taken from Marlboro, then major sponsors, and Project Four, the company run by a former Brabham mechanic called Ron Dennis.

This was the first fruit of the new McLaren International partnership that brought together Dennis and technical wizard John Barnard. It was also Formula 1’s first carbon fibre monocoque.

Seb had radio problems in his Red Bull cockpit at various times during 2012, but the issue in Brazil was the message, not the medium.

As the German slowed down following a hectic race that finally clinched the crown, team chief Christian Horner came on to tell him the list of great names who had previously taken the title three times.

“He forgot Alain Prost,” observed Vettel, who at the age of 25 now occupies the same space in the record-books as Schumacher, Fangio, Prost, Senna, Lauda, Piquet, Stewart and of course Sir Jack.

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